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W. M. HOLLADAY PLANTER.

No. 486,971. Patented NOV. 29,5 189.2.

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NTTE STATES PATENT FFICET PLANTER.

SPECIFICATION' forming part of Letters Patent No. 486,971, dated November 29, 1892.

Application filed J une 2l, 1892. Serial No. 437,467. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM M. HOLLA- DAY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Houlka, in the county of Chickasaw and State of Mississippi, haveinvented a new and useful Planter, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in planters, the objects in view being to provide a cheap and simple construction of planter adapted for planting corn, cotton, peas, or sorghum at predetermined distances apart and so constructed as to open and close the furrows for receiving the seed.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will appear in the following description, and the novel features thereof will be particularly pointed out in the claim.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a planter constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view of the same. Fig. 3 isadetail in vertical longitudinal section of the cotton-seed hopper. Fig. 4 is a transverse section of the machine. Fig. 5 is a plan View of the machine, the rear portion being broken away.

Like numerals indicate like parts in all the figures of the drawings. y.

l designates the opposite side bars of the frame,whose front ends embrace and are pivotally bolted to a tongue or draft-bar 3 by means of a transverse bolt 2, which bolt also passes through the front lower ends of a pair of upwardly-disposed handles ,4. These handles are connected near their rear ends by a transverse rung 5 and are supported by inclined standards 6, the lower ends of which are bya bolt 7 connected to the side bars 1 and the upper ends of which are bolted at 8 to the aforesaid handles.

Upon the same bolt 7 as the standards 6 are secured there is mounted a block 9, the same being adapted to loosely swing upon the bolt and interposed'between the rear ends of the bars 1. This block has its rear end tenoned and held into a niortise formed in the center of a transversely-disposed harrowbar 10, whose under side is curved or out out and provided at opposite sides of its center with depending harrow or cultivator teeth 11.

Hinged at 12 to the block 10 is the lower end of a rod 13, whose rear edge is provided with an upper half-opening 14 and a lower similar opening 15. Either of these openings lnay be arranged so as to receive the rung 5, and when the upper opening receives the rung the harrow is lowered to an operative position, and, on the other hand, when the lower opening 15 engages the rung the harrow is raised from an operative position. The bar may be secured in either of its positions through the medium of a vturn-button 16, which is pivoted to the rear edge of the bar 13 between the openings 14 and 15.

In bearingopenings formed in the side bars l an axle 18 is located, and the same at its outer ends, beyond the bars, is provided with a pair of ground-wheels 19 and between its bearings with a circular boss 20, whose pe-l riphery is provided with an annular series of perforations 21, in any number of which radiating spokes 22 may be inserted. These spokes are removable and may be increased or decreased in number, so as to occupy only a portion of the number of perforations or the entire number, and in accordance therewith the machine will be regulated to plant the seed a proper distance apart, all as in the manner hereinafter apparent. A platform 23 surmounts the frame of the machine and is provided at its center with an opening. This platform is surmounted by a hopper 24, whose bottom has a seed-discl1arge 25, and is recessed to receive a slide 26, whose front end is bifurcated at 27, and which is provided between its ends with a seed-opening 28. The discharge-opening 23a in the platform 23 is in advance of the discharge-opening 25 of the hopper, and by a reoiprocation of the seedslide seed that have passed through the hopper into the seed-opening of the slide will be brought opposite and dropped through the discharge-opening of the platform. A coiled spring 29 has its ends connected at 30 to the opposite sides of the hopper and between its ends is sprung over into and between the bifurcations 27 of the seed-slide. The seedslide is provided upon its under side with a depending lug 32, and the same is arranged in the path of the spokes or arms22, projecting from the cylindrical boss 2O of the axle 18, so that as the machineis moved the groundwheel imparting motion to the axles successively brings the spokes or arms extending from the boss against the rear side of the depending lug of the seed-slide and forces the same forward against the tension of its spring 29, which latter as soon as the slide is released retracts and returns it to its former position, Where it receives a further supply of seed, and,being again struck,is advanced to a point over the opening in the platform, so that it discharges therein.

33 designates a standard which depends from between the bars l and is bolted at 34E to said bars. The standard carries at its lower end a furrow-opening shovel 35 and is provided at its rear edge with a dischargetube 36, the upper end of which is in communication with the opening in the platform, so that seed passing through the opening will be connected by the discharge-tube to a point directly in rear of the furrow-opening shovel.

The operation of the machine will be readily understood from the foregoing description, and may be briey stated as follows: As the axle revolves and the seed-slide is reciprocated in the manner heretofore described the seed,whether corn, peas,or sorghum, will be caught by the opening in the slide and conducted from the hopper in predetermined quantities (in accordance with the size of the opening in the slide) to the opening in the platform, and from thence by the seedspout to a point in rear of the furrow opening shovel. This shovel, as its name implies, opens the furrow for the reception of the seed, and the hai-row or cultivator teeth following thereafter at each side of the furrow serves to replace the loose earth thrown from the furrow, and thus effectually cover the seed. In this manner the furrow-opening, planting, and covering are all accomplished in one continuous operation.

37 designates a hopper especially adapted for planting cotton,which hopperl have shown in detail in Figy. The hopper 37 is to be substituted for the hopper 211 when cottonseed are to be planted. The hopper 37 has hinged to its rear upper edge at 38 a V-shaped triangular ap 39, whose lower end extends down through the discharge opening 40, formed by the converging side walls of the hopper. The flap is provided with a longitudinal1y-disposed arm 4l, and from the same depends a series of agitator-teeth 42. A spring 43 is secured to the rear face of the flap, and after projecting through an opening44,forlned in the rear Wall of the hopper, is connected to one of the standards 6 or any other suitable point. The operation of this cotton-seed hopper will be obvious from the foregoing description of the operation of the machine, the

only difference being that the seed-slide is omitted and the spokes or arms radiating from the axle corne in contact with and operate to vibrate the hinged flap 39. During the operation of laying by the corn it will be seen that I may accomplish not only this by my machine, but I may also plant peas simultaneously with such operation, thus economizing both time and laborin a manner that will be obvious.

I-Iaving described my invention, what I claim is In a machine of the class described, the combination, with a framework, an axle, ground-wheels mounted thereon, and a hopper located upon the framework and provided with a bottom'having an opening, of a seedslide mounted in the hopper, provided at its front end With a notch and provided with an opening, means for communicating a forward motion to the slide, and a coiled-spring loop connected permanently at its ends to the sides of the opposite hopper and having its central or intermediate portion sprung over the front or notched end of they slide, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

WILLrAM M. HOLLADAY.

Witnesses:

' O. WILLIAMS,

W. P. BoDKIN. 

